Virsh setvcpus

https://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html-single/#sect-setvcpus

• virsh setvcpus VM_NAME 5 --live
• virsh setvcpus VM_NAME 5 --config --maximum
• virsh setvcpus VM_NAME 5 --config
• virsh setvcpus VM_NAME 5 --config --live

• virsh dominfo VM_NAME | grep CPU

• Hot unplugging vCPUs is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Related commands

• virsh maxvcpus https://libvirt.org/sources/virshcmdref/html-single/#sect-maxvcpus
• virsh setmem
• virsh edit
• virsh vcpuinfo
• virsh dumpxml: <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
• virt-xml

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/index